Re: Darcy & Prednisone & getting worse

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In a message dated 08/08/2002 7:02:29 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

kmnewberry@... writes:

> steroid induced psychosis

My mother had this due to Prednisone....lemme tell ya very scary....not a

pretty sight...she can NOT take it....she was going to kill someone had we

not got her the help that she needed....I think I would let myself die before

I take that medicene,but like we've all said millions of times before we all

react different...

Allicia

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In a message dated 08/08/2002 7:02:29 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

kmnewberry@... writes:

> steroid induced psychosis

My mother had this due to Prednisone....lemme tell ya very scary....not a

pretty sight...she can NOT take it....she was going to kill someone had we

not got her the help that she needed....I think I would let myself die before

I take that medicene,but like we've all said millions of times before we all

react different...

Allicia

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In a message dated 08/08/2002 7:02:29 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

kmnewberry@... writes:

> steroid induced psychosis

My mother had this due to Prednisone....lemme tell ya very scary....not a

pretty sight...she can NOT take it....she was going to kill someone had we

not got her the help that she needed....I think I would let myself die before

I take that medicene,but like we've all said millions of times before we all

react different...

Allicia

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-My father in law was always kind of grumpy, but over the years

sometimes he was down right mean. Maybe this was an effect of the

prednisone that I didnt know about. I saw that a couple of you

mentioned it making you mean.

-- In @y..., " Blueberry "

wrote:

> Darcy-I also will NEVER try a vegetarian diet again. I have tried

it

> several times in the past 20 years, for months at a time, and I end

up very

> sick. Not because I didn't mix my carbs & beans correctly. But

because of

> the high fiber--for me vegatarian diet is equal to a slow, painful

death.

> Well, not so slow as my stomach and intestines would rupture and

i'd die

> pretty fast! For me a high-fat, high-protein diet is the way that

I feel

> best. I am not obese, my cholesterol is fine, my blood sugar is

way low ALL

> the time. Good genes maybe? I grow some of my own meat and I know

it has

> no antibiotics or hormones in it that way.

> I had read that for some neurological disorders such as MS, that

they were

> experimenting with a high fat diet to try and rebuild or repair the

fatty

> myelin sheaths that have been destroyed by the MS.

> Prednisone--I put that on my list of drugs to never, ever take

again! I

> became very angry, and am sure that I could've gotten a gun and

shot

> ANYBODY! I knew that something was wrong, and I locked myself in

the

> bedroom, until I settled down. I believe that I may have had a

reaction

> called steroid induced psychosis!

> I've been looking for treatment for my FMS for 19 years...1/2 my

life, and I

> do think that the FMS gets worse over time.....or I mind it more,

or I lose

> the will to work through the pain, but, they say it isn't supposed

to get

> worse....but, I think in my case it definitely has. The flares are

worse

> and more frequent, the fatigue is worse, the pain is worse, the fog

is

> foggier, the bowels are more irritable, I can't think of one way

that things

> have stayed the same!

>

>

>

>

> kmnewberry@h...

>

>

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-My father in law was always kind of grumpy, but over the years

sometimes he was down right mean. Maybe this was an effect of the

prednisone that I didnt know about. I saw that a couple of you

mentioned it making you mean.

-- In @y..., " Blueberry "

wrote:

> Darcy-I also will NEVER try a vegetarian diet again. I have tried

it

> several times in the past 20 years, for months at a time, and I end

up very

> sick. Not because I didn't mix my carbs & beans correctly. But

because of

> the high fiber--for me vegatarian diet is equal to a slow, painful

death.

> Well, not so slow as my stomach and intestines would rupture and

i'd die

> pretty fast! For me a high-fat, high-protein diet is the way that

I feel

> best. I am not obese, my cholesterol is fine, my blood sugar is

way low ALL

> the time. Good genes maybe? I grow some of my own meat and I know

it has

> no antibiotics or hormones in it that way.

> I had read that for some neurological disorders such as MS, that

they were

> experimenting with a high fat diet to try and rebuild or repair the

fatty

> myelin sheaths that have been destroyed by the MS.

> Prednisone--I put that on my list of drugs to never, ever take

again! I

> became very angry, and am sure that I could've gotten a gun and

shot

> ANYBODY! I knew that something was wrong, and I locked myself in

the

> bedroom, until I settled down. I believe that I may have had a

reaction

> called steroid induced psychosis!

> I've been looking for treatment for my FMS for 19 years...1/2 my

life, and I

> do think that the FMS gets worse over time.....or I mind it more,

or I lose

> the will to work through the pain, but, they say it isn't supposed

to get

> worse....but, I think in my case it definitely has. The flares are

worse

> and more frequent, the fatigue is worse, the pain is worse, the fog

is

> foggier, the bowels are more irritable, I can't think of one way

that things

> have stayed the same!

>

>

>

>

> kmnewberry@h...

>

>

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Blueberry wrote:

> Prednisone--I put that on my list of drugs to never, ever take again! I

> became very angry, and am sure that I could've gotten a gun and shot

> ANYBODY! I knew that something was wrong, and I locked myself in the

> bedroom, until I settled down.

Can you tell me how long you were on it before you started getting these

feelings of anger? I have to say, I've heard of people getting angry

while on it, and I'm not looking forward to that as a side effect.

Darcy